Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut

• Author : Susan Farrell
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 25 March 2023

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

• Author : Elaine Sommers Rich
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 30 January 2015

"I wanted to tell a story about adolescents who knew what they were doing and why." Elaine Sommers Rich gives this as a reason for having written this book. Along with Esther Miller, a Voluntary Service unit member, Rich takes us onto the receiving ward of a state mental hospital in the summer of 1948 following her freshman year in college. The charge attendant on Esther's ward has a "treat 'em rough" attitude toward the mentally ill, an attitude which immediately

• Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
• Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
• Release : 25 March 2023

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible. Vonnegut shared with readers a world that includes the expansive timeline from the

• Author : Dennis Abrams
• Publisher : Pentian
• Release : 25 January 2016

The Play"s The Thing: The Plays of William Shakespeare is aimed at a YA (young adult) audience as an introduction to the greatest plays ever written. Direct and personal and decidedly non-academic, each play gets its own essay, giving the reader an overview of the play with an emphasis on the relevance that the play has to the reader"s own life and concerns. As I wrote in the introduction, "The goal of this guide, then, is to turn

• Author : Chris Riddell
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 20 September 2018

In Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between. This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth, family, love, imaginings, nature, war and endings. Chris Riddell brings them to life with his exquisite, intricate artwork in this beautiful anthology. This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 04 April 2016

A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror—now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition. The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature “The Actors’ Gallery,” which presents famous actors and actresses—among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira Mikijirô, Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwood—

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 2023

• Author : Bonnie L. Heintz
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1974

• Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1971

• Author : Debra Moody Bass Ph.D
• Publisher : WestBow Press
• Release : 31 October 2019

Lessons from the Bible contains 39 meditations that begin with Genesis and ends with the last prophet listed in the Old Testament, Malachi. The book focuses on the relationship between the original audience and the present reader. It is written to inspire and challenge conservative teaching that would support division in the pew and the pulpit.

• Author : Diane Ravitch,Michael Ravitch
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 2023

In this sequel to the best-selling The American Reader, mother-and-son team Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing in one compact volume writings that have shaped not only England, but democratic culture around the globe. Here are words that changed the world, words that inspired revolutions as well as lovers, dreamers, and singers, words that every educated person once knew--and should know today. Framed by two

• Author : Oscar Williams
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 25 March 2023

447 British and American poems by 150 poets, including contemporary poets.

• Author : Robert Bolton,Dorothy Grover Bolton
• Publisher : AMACOM
• Release : 25 October 1984

What is social style, and how can you make it work for you in a business situation? Your success at any management level depends largely on your ability to deal with other people. In this business-oriented approach to interpersonal relationships, management experts Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton show you how to assess various behavior patterns and how to use that knowledge to capitalize on your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and get the results you want from others.Are you

• Author : Robert G. Lee
• Publisher : Solid Christian Books
• Release : 25 May 2017

• Author : Jane Susann MacCarter
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 June 2015

College senior Stella Denton has very few prospects and even fewer suitors i.e. none when a gunshot wound to the head catapults her from 21st century Minneapolis to Jarmo, a real-life hunter-gatherer society circa 7000 BCE. Although Stella starts 'living sequentially' in both realities, she thrives far more in her ancient life. However, an impending war could also get her people slaughtered unless she takes immediate action to save herself and her tribe. During her dual-life journey, Stella draws the